Hello,<div><br></div><div>Why not use Gnome System Settings and KDE System Settings instead?</div><div>So this can be visible in both environments, and the user will know what he needs to change.</div><div>Internally I believe both can keep System Settings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Using Gnome/KDE System Settings the user will know which one he want's to use.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Arx Cruz</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sergey.udaltsov@gmail.com">sergey.udaltsov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> This is what happens when you mix and match bits and pieces from<br>
> different operating systems. There is really not much that can be done<br>
> about it. Since that is what both KDE and GNOME are trying to do:<br>
> build complete, self-contained systems.<br>
</div>So far we are running the same OS (for most of us it is Linux, but it<br>
can be Solaris or *BSD). DE != OS. And the system can be multiuser -<br>
which sometimes means both KDE and GNOME can be present in the same<br>
installation. Also, some, especially semi-professional apps are not<br>
going to be duplicated in both environments (I am not talking about<br>
text editors or calculators) - so there are relatively high chances<br>
that the user would need both sets of settings, for KDE and GNOME (in<br>
that sense having ShowOnlyIn can be a bad idea - some "foreign" apps<br>
would become not configurable).<br>
<br>
The best idea really would be to define the mechanism of feeding the<br>
settings into "foreign" apps. Both directions, GNOME (desktop) ->KDE<br>
(apps) and KDE (desktop) -> GNOME (apps). If we have that, in addition<br>
to ShowOnlyIn, user could never notice that the system has two<br>
variants of "System Settings". The only problem with that approach is<br>
that some settings can be defined only in one DE. In that case, sane<br>
default values could be the only choice..<br>
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